A teacher, Osho Bamidele Samuel, with 15 years experience was on Friday, October 24, 2014, beaten to near death some of his students.
The incident occurred at St. Marks Anglican Grammar School, Kolabalogun area, Osogbo, Osun State, where he teaches English Language and Literature-in-English to the SSS2 and 3 students.
Bamidele allegedly scolded a group of students, numbering five, who were not in their classrooms while lectures were ongoing, but the his corrective actions miffed the students, who then ganged up to teach him a lesson.
The students who carried out this act have been arrested and charged to court, though the ringleader, Rado is still at large.
This is how Bamidele, who is on a sick bed at a hospital, unable to move his hands recounts the whole ordeal: “It was around 1p.m on Friday, October 24, 2014, that I was assigned by school authorities to distribute learning furniture to other schools. On going back to my office in Block 5, after I finished, I discovered that lectures were ongoing, in all the four classrooms, except the one close to my office.
“On entering the classroom, I met a group of students there. I asked them what they were doing but they didn’t answer me. I said are you in my school? If you are in my school, go to the class. If you are not in my school, go to your school. I don’t want to see any student disturbing when lecture is going on in the class.
“At this point, one of them came close to me and steering at me in the eyes. I said to him, are you mad? I asked you to go to your classroom and you are coming to me. He came closer and wanted to chest me. I said, definitely you must be a tout.
“When I got angry and held on to his trousers in order to take him out for punishment, his friends pounced on me and started twisting my hands. They pushed me to the wall, dragged me on the floor.
Speaking further, the teacher said: “It has been hell for teachers in Osun State, since schools were merged and students began using the same uniform. Before the reclassification programme, the situation was under control, but now, if we call a student to do something, he or she will just walk away saying I am not in your school,”